The Laborer's Two Bodies
Subtitle: Labor and the "Work" of the Text in Medieval Britain, 1350-1500 (The New Middle Ages)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 19, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781403965165
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1000 to c 1500; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Work & labour; Literary Criticism; English Renaissance Literature (1500-1700); Middle English Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; Medieval; Literary Criticism & Collections / Medieval; Great Britain; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; History; Labor laws and legislation
First sentence: By 1350, the plague had left much of the English countryside depopulated, and workers were in short supply.